CARPENTERS' AWARD

Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 138, 11 June 1920, Page 7

CARPENTERS' AWARD

HAWKES BAY DISTRICT.

An award- of the Arbitration Court in the Amalgamated' Society of Carpenters' and Joiners' dispute (Hawkes Bay) has been filed. Hours are fixed on the 44----hour week basis, five days of eight hours each, and four hours on Saturday. No worker shall bs required to work more than six hours continuously without a meal , The minimum wage for journeymen carpenters, joiners, and joiners' machinists is fixed at 2s per hour, plus a, bonus of 3d per hour. On all outside jobs the worker responsible for carrying out the work and for giving instructions to other workers, shall be paid not less than Is a day extra. Extra pay is also provided for work under certain conditions, such as 50 per cent, higher rates for insulation work, where th& ait it impregnated with dust, or where the temperature is 40 degrees or less, and 3d per hour extra for demolition work. AH overtime is to be remunerated at the rate of double time. Piecework is prohibited and subletting, labour only. It shall be a breach of the award for any employer to sublet any work coming within the scope of the award on a labour-only baeis, and any worker taking such work .shall be guilty of a breach. Work taken on a labour-only basis is denned as when a worker agrees to do the labour on any job coming within the scope of this award and who does not supply the whole of the materials necessary to carry on the work. Elaborate provision is made for apprentices at the following rates of pay : First year, 15s per week; second year. 20s per week; third year, 30s per week; fourth year, 35s per week : fifth year. £2 10s per week. During the first three years of his apprenticeship, the apprentice must attend technical school or colleg in carpentry, joinery, and building construction classes. On passing an examination equal to that for grade 2 of the City and Guilds of London Institute he shall be entitled, on the production of his certificate, to receive not less than 5s per week extra in the fourth year and 7s 6d per week in the fifth year of his apprenticeship. The proportion of apprentices to journeymen is fixed at one to every three or fraction of three. Provision is also made in the award for under-rate workers, for preference to unionists, und exemptions of foremen carpenters of freezing companies and the Hawkes Bay County Council. The term of the "award is from 24th May, 1920, to 24th May, 1922.